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Friday, May 19, 2006

Games People Play

Posted by DavidNYC

From Hotline On Call:

Maybe we're in the minority, but we love the trivia contest Republican Dick DeVos features in his weekly MI GOV campaign emails. In fact, they are so good, we thought we'd include this week's question from the DeVos email. As you'll see, these aren't bogus questions designed to elicit crappy campaign spin, but real political trivia. Enjoy.

Trivia Challenge

When Democratic Senator Pat McNamara died in 1966, Governor George Romney appointed this person to fill the vacancy. Name the person.

Please email your response, with the name of the city you live in , to Trivia@DeVosForGovernor.com.

In all seriousness, games are always a good way to create good will with you activists. We're surprised we don't see more of this. And if a lot of campaigns are doing this already, let us know.

That does seem like a good idea to me. I'm a nerd, so I love trivia. But including little games like this in your e-mails is a win no matter what. People who like trivia will be more likely to read your e-mails, and people who don't will just ignore it.

Anyhow, anyone know the answer? I'm stumped.

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David

The answer can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Michigan.

Posted by: msn1 at May 19, 2006 12:35 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Aw, but come on, you have to answer it from memory for it to be a game, msn1.

Lousy internets. ;-)

Posted by: James L. at May 19, 2006 12:38 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Interesting thing about all this is that Griffin, a Republican (as was Romney, who JFK was paranoid about having to run against in 1964, but I digress), was replaced in 1978 by Carl Levin. The election of that year ('78) is most notable for its overall effect on Congress, when the whole thing began moving to the right, and the Dems lost three liberal seats in the Senate to three conservatives. So, more trivia, who were those winners and losers? (I'll even give you the states NH, IA, CO - and no cheating(internets that means you))

Posted by: KazHooker at May 19, 2006 01:37 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

My answers:

NH- Thomas MacIntyre (D) with Gordon Humphrey (R)
IA- Dick Clark (D) with (?) Jepsen
CO- Floyd Haskell (D) with Ward Armstrong (R)

Also, David Boren won an open seat in Oklahoma for the Democrats, and Thad Cochran won an open seat in Mississippi for the GOP (thanks to a split Democratic base).

Posted by: Stephen Yellin at May 19, 2006 11:02 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Jepsen's first name was Roger.
More trivia: In 1984, Jepsen basically handed his seat to Tom Harkin after claiming he was above a certain DC traffic law because he was a senator. What law did he break?

Posted by: RamblinDave at May 19, 2006 01:08 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Going over 60 in a school zone?

(Just a wild guess.)

Posted by: James L. at May 19, 2006 01:13 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

No, it was less dangerous than that, but equally arrogant.

Posted by: RamblinDave at May 19, 2006 01:18 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment

Armstrong's first name was William not Ward.

Posted by: Vadranor at May 19, 2006 06:09 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment